ASSIGNMENT

Assignment - Social Workers and Parenting

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion1

Social Work with Children and Families3

Parental Substance Abuse and Children7

Social Work, Welfare and Well-Being10

Current Practice and Laws around Children and Family Work11

Common Assessment Framework (CAF)14

UN Rights of the child15

The Children Act 198916

Conclusion19

Assignment - Social Workers and Parenting

Introduction

The social service is an activity which, through various techniques and methods, enables individuals, groups and communities to achieve a level of satisfactory operation with their surroundings and in different living environments. The social worker may intervene with individuals, couples, families, small groups and communities. He or she works directly with people who can solve problems of personal, family or others. He or she also helps the community to mobilize and seek solutions to community needs.

In British, social workers abide by a Code of Practice set out in The UK Association of Social Workers. This emphasizes obligations to: assist users or clients to exercise their rights; respect diversity; engage in anti-discriminatory practices; and promote social justice. Such a remit is familiar to social workers across the world (Beresford 2000: pp. 489-503). However, the poly-ethnic societies of sub-Saharan countries, which comprise a multitude of different indigenous cultural practices, confront social workers with different challenges to those in North America and America.

Discussion

Roles of the social workers are mentioned below (Webb 2006: pp. 127-138):

assess, advise and treat individuals and possibly their families to help them overcome emotional difficulties, behavioural, social or financial

form a support group with people who want to initiate a collective effort to achieve wellness, women's groups as single parents or groups of children;

investigate cases of abuse or neglect committed with children and take the necessary protective measures;

intervene in the process of rehabilitation of people who are disabled, suffering from serious illness or loss of autonomy;

be part of a multidisciplinary team of professionals working with client groups;

to find out solutions to problems that directly affect these groups;

develop programs and resources for prevention and intervention to meet the needs of the community;

provide rehabilitation services for criminals in a correctional facility;

provide mediation services and psychosocial assessments;

evaluate the effectiveness of counselling programs and social services;

working in the education system and advise students, parents and teachers;

Practice in social departments (programs of income support, child protection, child support, custody and adoption), or, working in programs to help employment.

Social workers provide their services in the following workplaces:

Agencies for children

Hospitals

Schools

Community health centres

Services to children and families

Home support services

Centres for children, adolescents, adults, elderly

Support centres for immigrants

Shelters for women and children victims of domestic violence

Superior court for family mediation services and psychosocial evaluation

Various companies offering employee assistance program

Correctional facilities

Institutions or services that provide assistance to members of a community

Communities

Social Work with Children and Families

When it comes to the actuality of social work practice with children and families, New Labour's 'modernisation' and 'transformation' agenda amounted to the increased proceduralisation, bureaucratisation and control of the social work task. For example, there is the increased documentation needed for looked after children and those subject to child protection ...